---
type: "Bill"
title: "St. Mary's County - Land Records - Repeal"
description: "St. Mary's County - Land Records - Repeal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/md"
legislature: "Maryland General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 404"
citation: "Maryland HB 404 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties - Local Laws", "Attorneys", "Clerks of Court", "Land Records", "Public Local Laws", "St. Mary's County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["St. Mary's County Delegation"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-26"
last_action: "2017-05-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44373faf-9753-44a0-99eb-1c227700f697"
source_url: "http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=HB404&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2017rs"
source_hash: "99eaa81d17dcb489873c2a7a3d96389357aadb4bd0c5f88aefd2008a5e1bac85"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-md"]
---

# Maryland HB 404 (2017) — St. Mary's County - Land Records - Repeal

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2017RS/bills/hb/hb0404f.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **138–0** (pass) · legislature
- Third Reading — **44–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- St. Mary's County Delegation — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-26** First Reading Environment and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Hearing 3/07 at 1:00 p.m.
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report by Environment and Transportation `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-14** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-03-18** Third Reading Passed (138-0) `passage`
- **2017-03-20** First Reading Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Favorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Favorable Report Adopted `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Second Reading Passed
- **2017-04-07** Third Reading Passed (44-0) `passage`
- **2017-04-08** Returned Passed
- **2017-05-04** Approved by the Governor - Chapter 425 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/44373faf-9753-44a0-99eb-1c227700f697`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maryland legislature records).